Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 107
Your Bird of Light flew into the garden every night and stole the golden apples from the apple-tree my father loved, and for that reason my father sent me to seek the Bird of Light and to take it to him.”
Who acts: Bird, father · What happens: fly, steal, love, send, seek, take · To what, where: garden, golden apples, apple tree, me, Bird, father
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Bird | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Light | case |
| 4 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bird | nmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stole | cc |
| 12 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 apples | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 apples | amod |
| 15 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stole | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 apple | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stole | obl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loved | nsubj |
| 23 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sent | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sent | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 reason | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 reason | det |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | nsubj |
| 31 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 sent | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 seek | mark |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sent | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Bird | det |
| 36 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Light | case |
| 38 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Bird | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 take | cc |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 seek | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 take | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 take | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Your Bird of Light | night | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | |||
| 2 | steal | past | Your Bird of Light not said here | the golden apples | the apple tree | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from tree=Source | |||
| 3 | love | past | my father | the apple tree not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | send | past | my father | me | for that reason | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | my father not said here | the Bird of Light | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | my father not said here | BIRD | father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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